Horse-collar.



H.-J. DANIEL. HORSE COLLAR. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10,1914.

1,125,820. Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

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UNTTED %TAS PATENT @FFTQFL HENRY J". DANIEL, OF HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

HORSE-COLLAR.

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Application filed September 10, 1914-.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY J. DANIEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Halifax county, in the State of Virginia, have made an Improvement in Horse collars, of which the'following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in combined hames and shoulder pads, and relates particularly to means for connecting them and also to pad attachments of the same.

The details of construction, arrangement and combination of parts are as hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which, v

Figure l isa face view of my improved collar. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. A is an enlarged horizontal section on the line 4.4: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5

is a perspective View of one of the connecting blocks.

In Figs. 1 and 2, the numeral 1 indicates the combined hames and collar pads, which are constructed of wood and properly shaped to fit upon the neck and shoulders of a horse or mule. The neck pad is composed of wooden blocks 2, having recesses in their outer ends, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, which receive the inner edges of the hames 1. Thin spacing blocks 2 are arranged in the end recesses of the wooden blocks 2, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. These blocks may be constructed of any suitable material. A screw bolt 3 passes through the hames 1, neck blocks 2, and spacing blocks 2 as shown in Fig. 3. As will be understood by reference to Figs. 2and 3, this bolt is arranged near the lower front corners of the blocks and also near the front of the hames, which arrangement aids in resisting torsion of the hames and collar pads when traction is applied by means of tugs or traces. Thus, not only the hames but the blocks themselves may be made less bulky than would be otherwise necessary to resist the torsional strain. Metal plates 4 are secured to the inner ends of the neck blocks 2 and on the rear side thereof as shown in Fig. 3, in order to take up the wear incident to partial rotation of the said blocks on each other in consequence of the hames working on the shoulders of the draft animal. A leather sleeve 5'is applied to the neck blocks 2 and its ends secured together by leather strings. This sleeve serves as a flexible pad, which pre- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

Serial No. 861,043.

vents actual contact of the blocks 2 with the neck of the animal.

The lower ends of the hames 1 are provided with interior projections 1, as shown in Fig. 4, the same being secured to the hames by screw bolts 6. It will be understood that these projections which extend toward each other constitute the lower portion of the collar which is directly opposite the lower portion of the draft animals neck, and that they have independent movement along with the hames 1 corresponding to the forward and backward swinging movement of the animals shoulders. A pad 7 consisting of a leather plate is applied to cover the upper and inner side of the proections 1, and it is secured to the hames by means of a strap 8 which passes through slots in the plate. The said strap is provided with a snap hook and buckle, as shown, and is thereby secured to metal eye plates 9 which are in turn secured on the outer sides of the hames by the screw bolts 6.

It will be understood that the inner edge of the leather plate 7 is free and that in practical use it is in contact with the front side of the animals neck. A second strap 10 is employed as shown in Fig. 1, for supporting the leather plate 7 in elastic contact with the draft animals neck, such contact being much easier for the animal than would be the case if the plate were allowed to rest directly on the rigid hame projections 1 A strap 10 passes through slots in the plate 7 and its ends are secured by a snap hook to staples 11 driven into the hames and located just below the rings 12 to which the neck-yoke straps are in practice attached.

The hames are provided on the outer side with the usual rein guides 18, and at a lower point with other guides 14:, which are used only when plowing, harrowing, or such like work. The upper ends of the hames are provided at the top with rings 15 which may serve as guides for bridle reins, if required.

What I claim is 2-- 1. The combined hames and shoulder pads having a neck-pad formed of blocks provided with end recesses adapted to receive the inner edges of the hames, and a screw bolt passing through said blocks and securing them to the hames and to each other.

2. The combined hames and shoulder pads having a neck pad formed of main blocks provided with outer end recesses that receive the inner edges of the hames, facing blocks interposed between the main blocks and hames, and a pivot bolt passing through the hames and the several blocks, as described.

3. The combined hames and shoulder pads having a neck pad formed of blocks provided with end recesses adapted to receive the hames and a bolt passing through holes arranged near the front side of the haine and in the lower front corners of the block, as and for the purpose described.

4. The combined hames and pads having their lower ends provided with lateral projections extending toward each other, but without contact, a flexible pad applied around such projections and means for securing it to the hames, as described.

5. The combined hames and pads having means for connecting them at the top so that they may rotate or swing on each other, and a flexible pad applied around the lower inwardly projecting portions of the pad and a strapsecuring the pad to the hames, and a second strap applied to the middle portion of the plate and secured to the hames whereby the middle portion of the pad is supported above the lower rigid portions of the haines, as described.

HENRY J. DANIEL.

Witnesses:

J. R. KING, E. G. BAGLEY.

Gopiesl of thisv patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

